Three days ago
שִׁלְשֹׁםStrong’s H8032shilshom (shil-shom)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shilshom is the Hebrew word usually translated “three days ago”, “third day” and “from three days ago”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.”
Meaning
- Day before yesterday, three days agoan idiom for 'heretofore in times past'
How it's translated
- three days ago 18
- third day 5
- from three days ago 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 6
- 1 Samuel 5
- Deuteronomy 3
- Joshua 3
- Genesis 2
- 2 Samuel 2
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:5And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
- Exodus 4:10And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
- Exodus 5:7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Exodus 5:8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
- Exodus 5:14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
- Exodus 21:29But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁלְשֹׁם shilshom · three days ago
1) day before yesterday, three days ago 1a) an idiom for 'heretofore in times past'
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.